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July 2009

The In Crowd

Add panache to your meeting with hip hotels

Business Response Card

Where in the West

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Online Exclusives

Getting to know the Green Meetings Industry Council

Finally—an organization for meeting planners by meeting planners

Ms. Smart E. Pants: Fashion Police

Q: I am transitioning from a very casual company to a more formal one. Can you give me advice on dressing professionally for the office and beyond?—Deborah Foster, Portland, Ore.

THE UN-COMFORT ZONE: Be a Copycat

Follow your way into success

Don’t let travel fly away with your cash

Save some green while you are on the go

Destinations

Bellevue

Living up to its name, Bellevue provides beauty and upscale, urban amenities

 Over the hills of Seattle and across Lake Washington’s floating bridge to Bellevue we go. A city of approximately 110,000 residents, Bellevue (meaning “a beautiful view”) has really come into its own over the past few years—defining itself not just as Seattle’s neighbor, but a destination all its own.

Denver and Colorado Springs

Denver and Colorado Springs offer city perks and wide-open spaces

Newsflash! Colorado has changed significantly in the last decade—updating, renovating and re-imagining itself as a prime destination for leisure and business visitors. Yet the state hasn’t lost its ties to its Wild West past, when fortune-seekers and adventurers in covered wagons climbed the Rocky Mountains nearly 150 years ago.

Southern California

Meet and play in the Southern California summer

Beach blanket, check; sun block, check; volleyball, check; golf clubs, check; Disney tickets, bathing suit, hiking shoes…check, check, check. Oh, and meeting agenda, check.

Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Taos

Spice up your meetings in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Taos

Watch the sunrise over the arroyo and a full palette of earth tones emerges with the morning light. It’s a New Mexico dawn, and a spectacular display of the wild beauty and rich colors of this southwestern state.

Western Canada

B.C. and Alberta will suprise and delight your meeting-goers

One of the unexpected benefits of a soft economy is discovering something new and exciting about a familiar destination. Or, in the case of Western Canada, right in your own backyard.

Features

Flying Solo Now

Independent contractors tell it like it is

Operation Opening and Overhaul

Get your groups in these new and renewed properties on a mission to impress

The In Crowd

Add panache to your meeting with hip hotels

Columns

Healthy Meetings: Spas in Season

Summertime Spas

Smart Money: Bargain Planning

Hold on to your planning dollars

Vegas Means Business

Viva Las Vegas meetings!

Did You Know

Tom Terrific

How far does a dollar go?

Food + Beverage

Competitive Juices

Quick Quips

How’d You Do That?

So funny it's magic

Select Sites

Smart Sites July 2009

The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain and Westin Galleria Dallas

Smart Planner

Tips and Tales

Veteran planners' tips of the trade

Smart Talk

Smart Talk: Interview with John Folks

Interview with John Folks, President & Principal, Minding Your Business, Inc., Chair, Professional Convention Management Association

Techno Files

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A publication tailored for you, the meeting planner professional. We focus exclusively on locations in the western United States (including Alaska and Hawaii), Mexico and Canada.